FB Life Event

FB reselect status

If you now reselect "Status" - it activates the text field, and shows the same status options as noted above.

FB create bgcolor

When creating from the home page instead of your profile (n.b. I found this true from profile also - Tantek Çelik), the interface is slightly different. It also includes an option to select background color. After clicking "Background Color" you have several color options to choose:

After choosing a color, the background changes in the window:

FB create new feature

Sometimes Facebook adds a new feature to their create UI, and notifies you with a little blue mini-overlay:

user taps "post" or whatever, and only that text is left to send, everything else is already at the server, and the post appears *immediately*

You could maintain the sequence of filter/crop instructions purely as CSS filter and crop (width, height, object-fit:cover, object-position) properties and values, using them to display the image clientside, and serve that CSS from the server to make people's browsers do that filtering/cropping for you so you don't have to actually use ImageMagick or other server-side image manipulation software.